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He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

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Doe, Firsts, Praise

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

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Humility, Pride, Men

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

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Loyalty, Self, People

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

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Humble, People, Want

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

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Believe, Wish, Flawed
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 25 (Manuscrit de Liancourt), 1678.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

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Crazy, Predicaments, Bits
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 310, 1678.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

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Littles, Faults, Great Ones
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 327, 1678.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

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Stupid, People, Complaining

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

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Upset, Should
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 11 (Manuscrit de Liancourt), 1678.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

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Kind, Miserable, Knows

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

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Hero, Men, Evil

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

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People, Ashamed, Being Loved

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

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Failing, Convince, Minors

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

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Serious, Painful, Conditions

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

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Mistake, Passion, Ambition

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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Happiness, Men, Misery
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 61, 1678.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

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Witty, Loss, Men

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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Men, Giving, Advice

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

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Talking, Mind, Desire

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

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Believe, Men, Doubt

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

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Memories, Complaining, Good Memories

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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Done, Virtue, Repentance

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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Thinking, Agreement, Listening To Others

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Gratitude, Kindness, Men

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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Action, Intention, Glorious

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