In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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