Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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 resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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