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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
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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