If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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