"Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases...." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.”

“Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.”

“I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]”

“Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.”

“I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.”

“You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equalin this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.”