How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFlattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld