Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld