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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. View quote
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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. View quote
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. View quote
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. View quote
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Taste may change, but inclination never. View quote
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. View quote
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. View quote
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. View quote
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. View quote
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A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. View quote
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. View quote
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. View quote
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. View quote
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. View quote
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give. View quote
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. View quote
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. View quote
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It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. View quote
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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. View quote
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We always get bored with those whom we bore. View quote
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does. View quote
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. View quote
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