However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Maya Angelou
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.Dalai Lama
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.Tom Stoppard
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.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
