Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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