"In all professions each affects a look..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
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“Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.”
“We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
More on Appearance
“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”
“O heresy in fair, fit for these days,A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.”
“The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.”
More on Society
“The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.”
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.”