To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

Quote by FranÃ§ois De La Rochefoucauld

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it...

A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with...

A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with...

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and...

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those...

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those...

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot...

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a...

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a...

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

There are heroes in evil as well as in good

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of...

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of...

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and...

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and...

The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.

The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.