Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.