"The defects of the mind, like those..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.”

“What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.”

“Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.”

“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”

“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.”

“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.”

“Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“Every picture of you is when you were younger.”