We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving...

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more...

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more...

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions,...

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions,...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred...

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred...

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to...

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to...

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

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

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.