Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDInnocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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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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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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