Dynamics
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered. (Oscar Wilde)
Fine conduct is always spontaneous. (Seneca)
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. (James Baldwin)
Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. (La Rochefoucauld)
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. (La Rochefoucauld)
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Eric Hoffer)
To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is. (Nietzsche)
Some degree of affectation is as necesary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. (William Hazlitt)
Affection is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. (John Locke)
Nature, in denying us perennial youth, has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. (George Santayana)
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. (Emerson)