Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

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

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

• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

• 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?

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