"Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”

“We give nothing so freely as advice.”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.”

“The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.”

“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”

“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”