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• Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. -- La Rochefoucauld
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
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• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
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• Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
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