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François de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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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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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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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 should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

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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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