We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld