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" Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity
Us
Money
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" We pardon to the extent that we love. "
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" Our 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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" You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. "
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" There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. "
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" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "
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" As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. "
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" If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. "
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" We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. "
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" The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. "
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" The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. "
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