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Interest Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for…
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future…
- The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest…
- A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
- On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -…
- What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how…
- Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
- Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
- Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
- Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.
- Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in…
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the…
- The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
- The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
- The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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