Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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