I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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 more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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