“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.” MenSelfCareInterestFriendsSelf LoveFavorsMutualPartnershipTrafficPropose Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.” MeanSelfCareHumanityPovertyStudySelf LoveSakeTake CareRidiculous Author:Mary Collyer