We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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