As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLoyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld