As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious... →
Joel Robuchon
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the... →
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride... →
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.