Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld