A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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