There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld