Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
Francois de La RochefoucauldVery few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld