Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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 only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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