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On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

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Powerful, Ambition, Generosity

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

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Love Is, Infidelity, Welcome

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

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Our Actions, Rhyme, Please

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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Deception, Trying, Fool

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

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Doe, World, Oneself

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

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Real, Knowledge, Age

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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Mind, Politeness, Delicate

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

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Hate, Way, Flattery

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

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Advice, Vices, Credit

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

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Wisdom, Advice, Given
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 110, 1678.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

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Health, Disease, Strict

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

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Purpose, Speak, Silent

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

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Vanity, Giving, May

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

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Men, Care, Littles

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

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Party, Taken, Pride

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

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Deceit, Distrust, Justify
"Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

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True Friend, Envy, Coquetry

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

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Heart, Play, Long

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

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Way, Imagine, Fortune

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

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Friendship, Self, Office
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 83, 1678.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

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Benefits

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

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Happiness, People, Evil

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

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Love, Deceit, Mistrust

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

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Names, Bears, Know How

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

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Opportunity, Creating, Chance

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