"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency." ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld Topic(s): Money Tags: flattery More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld "Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty." "Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude." "One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines." More In Money "I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn’t make any difference what the interest rate is. They’re not – they’re not going to loan the money because they can’t make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance."― Rick Perry "It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."― Albert Camus "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens."― Samuel Gompers