When you cannot find your peace in yourself it is useless to look for it elsewhere - François de La Rochefoucauld

Dieu a permis, pour punir l’homme du péché originel, qu’il se fit un dieu de son amour-propre pour en être tourmenté dans toutes les actions de sa vie.

We are sure to displease when we speak too long and too often of one subject, and when we try to turn the conversation upon subjects that we think more instructive than others, we should enter indifferently upon every subject that is agreeable to others, stopping where they wish, and avoiding all they do not agree with.

313. — How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?