Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld