authenticity Quotes

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.