We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld