"Every one sees what you appear to..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”

“The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.”

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”

“A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.”

“Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.”

“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”

“We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.”

“Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.”

“The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.”