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Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

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Moving, Selfishness, Principles

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

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Wise, Wisdom, Intelligence

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

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Mean, Love Is, Infallible

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

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Passion, Men, Oratory
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 8, 1678.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

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Gratitude, Thinking, Extraordinary Moments

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

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Ungrateful People, Tragedy, Favors

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

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Life, Hate, Hatred

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

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Pride, World, Fancy

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

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Idiot, Wit

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

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Trust, Trust Others, Deceived

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

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Talking, Mind, Saying Nothing

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

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Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

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Wise, Heart, Consistency

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

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Order, Demand, Littles

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

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Silence, Risk, Policy

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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Taken, Mind, Skins

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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Love, Inspirational, Long
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

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Jealousy, Abandonment

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

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Confidence, Safe

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

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Winning, Men, People

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

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Sweet, Strong, May

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

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Friendship, True Friend, Possession

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

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Passion, Veils, May

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

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Love, Dream, Passion

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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