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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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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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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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