Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld