Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. "
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."
"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."