"We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest."
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"Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill."
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"Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune."
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"The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism"
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"Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever"
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"If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter."
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"It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others."
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"It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries."
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"Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life."
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"Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves."
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"One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks."
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"We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not."
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"There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent."
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"The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others."
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"It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have."
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"In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love."
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"Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still."
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"Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse."
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"Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear."
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"We give nothing so freely as advice."
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