"The best way to rise in society..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”

“Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”

“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”

“Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”

“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”

“A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.”

“The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.”

“The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.”

“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat”