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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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