Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld