The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld