Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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