We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld