The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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 happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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