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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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