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“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”

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“We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.”

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“When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

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“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”

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“Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”

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“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”

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“To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.”

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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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“The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.”

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“Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.”

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“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”

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“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

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“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

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“Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.”

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“Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.”

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“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Listening

“Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.”

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“We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.”

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“Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.”

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“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”

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