The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOur self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld