The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
Jean de la BruyereFavor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
Jean de la BruyereThe fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
Jean de la Bruyere