QUOTES by François de La Rochefoucauld
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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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."
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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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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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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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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
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"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service."
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"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
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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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"We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy."
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"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
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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."
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"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
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"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."
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"We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others."
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"We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves."
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"We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."
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"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."
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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."
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"We always love those that admire us, but we do not always love those we admire."
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"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."
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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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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."
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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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"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others."
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"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."
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