QUOTES by François de La Rochefoucauld
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
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"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."
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"The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune."
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"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."
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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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"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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"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
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"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship."
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"It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness."
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"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."
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"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
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"The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception."
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"There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means."
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"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
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"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."
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"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."
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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."
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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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"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."
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"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."
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"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
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"The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy"
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"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."
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"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves."
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"We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger."
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"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."
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"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
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"The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."
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"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."
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