We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld