Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld