We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLoyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld