"We are inconsolable at being deceived by..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.”

“There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.”

“A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.”

“Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.”

“I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.”

“The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.”

“A politician... one that would circumvent God.”

“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.”