Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.


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Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.
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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small intere...
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the th...
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguish...
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
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Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that th...
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
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How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
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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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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, ye...
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans...
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them...
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Weak people cannot be sincere.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwi...
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recogni...
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conve...
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, a...
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Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them...
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acqu...
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
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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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