authenticity Quotes

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Only the shallow know themselves.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.