It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
Jean de la BruyereThe shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
Jean de la BruyereThe mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.
Jean de la Bruyere