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- It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes…
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
- Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
- Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
- The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
- 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…
- 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…
- Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
- Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
- Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
- The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
- 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 -…
- True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
- We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
- The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
- Only the great can afford to have great defects.
- Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
- The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
- 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…
- Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to…
- The only security is courage.
- We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
- Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.
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