“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld Related Quotes “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”– e. e. cummings “Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”– Aristotle “Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”– Francis Bacon