Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld