"Le ridicule qu’on a augmente toujours en proportion qu’on s’en défend."

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One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it. — Letter 141: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. Richard Aldington (1924).