authenticity Quotes

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.