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- It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
- We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
- People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
- What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
- There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
- Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
- 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…
- Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
- Weak people cannot be sincere.
- Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
- Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.
- There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
- Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
- In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
- What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
- One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does…
- It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party…
- Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
- It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
- 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…
- Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.
- Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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