Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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