Jean de la Bruyere Favors Quotations

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.