Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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