We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMoral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld