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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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All Interest Motion Vice Virtue
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
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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