As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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