"Solemnity is a device of the body..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”

“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”

“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”

“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

“She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.”

“Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.”

“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”