Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.