Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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 RochefoucauldThose whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld