Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld