"Few things are needful to make the..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”

“When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.”

“Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.”

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”