Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDBefore we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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