La Rochefoucauld

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet read more

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?

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.

We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.