Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

没有什么比竭力使一件事显得自然更妨碍它成为自然的了。

-- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵