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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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