Usually we praise only to be praised.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

  The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound t

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

  I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

  God is in the details.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

  Less is more.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:

  Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.