Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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