Jean de La Bruyère Quote

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

The human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.