For You

Maxims of Rochefoucauld: “Few men are able to know all the ill they do.” “We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.” “In every profession, every individual affects to appear what he would willingly be esteemed; so that we may say, the world is composed of nothing but appearances.” “We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.” “Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly any one who...