What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld