A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld