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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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