That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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