We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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 is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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