"Nothing ought in reason to mortify our..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.”

“All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.”

“Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.”

“To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.”

“The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.”

“Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.”

“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”

“It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.”

“You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.”