Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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