We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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