Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld