We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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