The basic problems and scenarios that human beings encounter don't differ much from one person to another or from one generation to another. The same problems and scenarios have been encountered by dozens, hundreds or maybe millions before us.
The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body: no matter how much care we take to heal them, the scars remain, and there is always the danger that they will reopen. - Francois duc de La Rochefoucaul
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
