"We are almost always bored by just..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.”

“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”

“Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.”

“Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.”

“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”

“The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.”

“It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.”

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

“The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”