Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHappiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld