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A respectable man may love ma...

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1365 quotes

A person well satisfied with ...

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

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It is easier to rule others t...

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

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Gratitude is like the good fa...

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

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It is as proper to have pride...

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

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Youth changes its tastes by t...

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

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Satire is at once the most ag...

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

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There is scarcely any man suf...

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

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It is far better to be deceiv...

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

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We frequently do good in orde...

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

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The height of ability in the ...

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

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Politeness of mind consists i...

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

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Self-love is more cunning tha...

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

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The passions are the only ora...

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

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Pride has a greater share tha...

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

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We bear, all of us, the misfo...

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

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Nothing is more contagious th...

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

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Bodily labor alleviates the p...

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

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Gratitude is a useless word. ...

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

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That which makes the vanity o...

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

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