We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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