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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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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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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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