Cynthia Williams

“269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“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?”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims