One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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 should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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