We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld