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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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
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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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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