Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSmallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld