Related:

• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld