Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.
Francois de La RochefoucauldGratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld