If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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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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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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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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