François La Rochefoucauld

From Quote of the Day comes:

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Written by François La Rochefoucauld. Cherry picking from among his other quotes:

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Since he was at court, somehow it reminds me of Ridicule, which is a good movie and exactly follows the French formula of dorky guys and smoking hot babes.