The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
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 Rochefoucauld