The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld