Deonté Jack

“Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

“So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
― Plato