The cardinal rules of email etiquette

• NEVER TYPE IN ALL CAPS. THAT’S LIKE SCREAMING. REALLY!
• Be wary of any kind of attachment - even if it comes from someone you know.
• If a file you wish to send is larger than 2MB, think twice before sending it.
• HTML stationery is annoying; if you don’t need to use it, don’t.
• Use BCC instead of CC to keep other email addresses private.
• Don’t delete relevant information when you reply to someone.
• If you can’t spell well, rememmber to run a spell check before sending.
• Try to keep your messages as short as possible - you’re not writing a novel.
• Never send emails when you’re mad - wait until you calm down first. Trust me.
• Triple-check that you’re not sending a message to someone who shouldn’t see it.
• Remember that when you send something electronically, it has the potential of “living” forever.
• Before you forward an email joke, make sure it’s funny first. Please?

Optimism Quotes

Optimism - Wikiquote

La Rochefoucauld - some quotes

Quotes from the Maxims

• "Fights would not last if one side only were wrong."

• "Our virtues are usually just disguised vices."

• "What we call virtues are often just a collection of casual actions and selfish interests which chance or our own industry manages to arrange [in a certain way]. It is not always from valor that men are valiant, or from chastity that women are chaste."

• "The passions are the most effective orators for persuading. They are a natural art that have infallible rules; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without it."

• "If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others."

• "A man often believes he is leading when he is [actually being] led; while his mind seeks one goal, his heart unknowingly drags him towards another."

• "Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts."

• "Sincerity is an openness of heart that is found in very few people. What we usually see is only an artful disguise people put on to win the confidence of others."

• "When not prompted by vanity, we say little."

• "The refusal of praise is actually the wish to be praised twice."

• "In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be [seen as]--and thus the world is merely composed of actors."

• "We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."

• "No one deserves to be asked to lend their goodness, if he doesn't have the power to be bad."

• We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.