"The one thing people are the most..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.”

“Even women are perfect at the outset.”

“A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.”

“Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.”

“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy and wealth and wise.As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”

“Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.”

“The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being”

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?”