The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld