• There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

    Stanisław I Leszczyński: There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
    François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179