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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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