There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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