"Though most of the friendships of the..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”

“We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.”

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”

“I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.”

“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”

“If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.”