What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPraise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld