Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldCommonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld