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FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Its easier to extinguish our first inclinations than gratifying all those that come after it. |
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Jealousy is fed by doubts, and either becomes madness, or ceases, as soon as |
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Jealousy is in some sort just and reasonable, since it only tends to preserve a good which belongs to us, or which we believe does belong to us; whereas envy is a madness that cannot bear the good of others. |
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Love, as agreeable as it is, pleases more by the ways it takes to show itself than by anything in itself. |
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Lovers don't see the failings of their mistresses until their enchantment is at an end. |
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Magnanimity despises all, in order to obtain all. |
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Man often fancies he governs himself when he is governed: and while he with his understanding aims at one mark, his affections insensibly carry him off to another. |
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Means may be found to cure madness, but there are none to reform a perverse understanding. |
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Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have, as for those they affect to have. |
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Men are oftner treacherous out of weakness than out of any formed design. |
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Men often do good, that they may be able to do ill with impunity. |
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Men sometimes fancy that they hate flattery, but they only hate the manner of it. |
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Mens merits have their seasons, as well as fruits. |
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Most men, as well as plants, have secret virtues, which are discovered by chance. |
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Nature gives merit and fortune sets it to work. |
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Nature, who so wisely has fitted the organs of our body to make us happy. seems likewise to have bestowed pride on us, on purpose, as it were, to save us the pain of knowing our imperfections. |
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Never let a glorious action pass for great, when it is not the effect of a great design. |
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Nothing flatters our pride more than the trust the great place in us; because we look on it as the effect of our merit, without considering, that this trust most commonly proceeds from their vanity, or their inability to keep a secret. |
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Nothing hinders a man so much from being unaffected, as the fondness of appearing so. |
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Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so. |
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