"Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.”

“The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.”

“In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.”

“There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.”

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”

“Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.”

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.”

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”