It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld