Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld