Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldGravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld