"Were we not proud ourselves, we should..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We give nothing so freely as advice.”

“The passions often engender their contraries.”

“Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.”

“It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.”

“Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.”

“Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.”

“New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”