"We should desire very few things passionately..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.”

“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”

“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”

“Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.”

“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.”

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“Share your knowledge and you become immortal.”