In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld