It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld