Francois de La Rochefoucauld Rewards Quotations

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

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.