French author (1613-1680)
Hope and fear are inseparable.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
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Moral Maxims
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
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However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
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We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
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A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
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The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquette.
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It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
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Maxims
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
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We often glory in the most criminal passions; but envy is a shameful passion we never dare own.
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The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.
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The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.
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Sentences et Maximes Morales
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
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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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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
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The head is always the bubble of the heart.
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To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.
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We can't bear to be deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.
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The desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.
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The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.
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