John

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld