Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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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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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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