Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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