When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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