The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld