Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

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

• 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?

• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

• Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

• 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.