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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
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 principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere

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