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" We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. "
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" When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. "
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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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" When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. "
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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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" Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. "
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" Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. "
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" There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. "
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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. "
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" One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. "
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" There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. "
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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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" There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. "
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