Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThat which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld