Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

• We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.

• To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

• Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.