French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.