Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld