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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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