French author (1613-1680)
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.
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Moral Maxims
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Maxims
That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.
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Moral Maxims
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
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Moral Maxims
There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part.
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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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Moral Maxims
'Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.
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Moral Maxims
Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nothing is so catching as example.
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Moral Maxims
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.
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Maxims and Moral Reflections
The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.
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attributed, Day's Collacon
If vanity does not overthrow all virtues, at least she makes them totter.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Kings make men as they do pieces of money; they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth.
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attributed, Day's Collacon
We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.
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Moral Maxims
'Tis much easier to suppress a first desire, than to satisfy all those that follow it.
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Moral Maxims
The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius; and it almost always happens that those who use it to cover themselves in one place, lay themselves open in another.
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Moral Maxims
Only great men have great faults.
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Moral Maxims
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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Moral Maxims
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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Reflections; Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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Reflections