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• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
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• The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
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• Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
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• A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others.
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• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld