"To achieve greatness one should live as..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”

“Women know not the whole of their coquetry.”

“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.”

“Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.”

“James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.”

“The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.”

“We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”

“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life.”

“..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.”