Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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