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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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