When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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