Guard Condition

Famous quotes containing the words guard and/or condition:

“Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)