People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFew things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld