Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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