Famous quotes containing the words world and/or conventions:
“Self-love is the love of a man’s own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)