Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld