Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld