"Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”

“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“Clever tyrants are never punished.”

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”

“Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.”

“Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.”

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”