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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue

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