To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPassion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld