French author (1613-1680)
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
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Moral Maxims
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
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The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue.
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The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Day's Collacon
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
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Moral Maxims
The head is always the bubble of the heart.
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There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Flattery is a sort of bad money to which our vanity gives currency.
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We can't bear to be deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.
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Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
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Moral Maxims
The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.
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Sentences et Maximes Morales
An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.
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We often glory in the most criminal passions; but envy is a shameful passion we never dare own.
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Moral Maxims
Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world can't do without him is yet more mistaken.
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In love, the quickest is always the best cure.
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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.
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