Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
Francois de La Rochefoucauld