Gunnar Thorell

“356.—Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“398.—Of all our faults that which we most readily admit is idleness: we believe that it makes all virtues ineffectual, and that without utterly destroying, it at least suspends their operation.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“248.—Magnanimity despises all, to win all.”
― Francois Duc 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