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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."

"The heart is forever making the head its fool."

"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."

"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."

"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."

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

"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"

"Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity."

"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."

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