"We can be more clever than one,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”

“There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.”

“Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.”

“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”

“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“Comparison is the death of joy.”

“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.”

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”