Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHow can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld