A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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