"People are more slanderous from vanity than..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”

“Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.”

“The only thing constant in life is change”

“RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”

“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”

“Done to death by slanderous tongue”

“Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.”

“Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.”

“Vanity is but the surface.”