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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
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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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those

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