What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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