Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAvarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld