What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFew are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld