A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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