We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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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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