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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
         

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.


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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.



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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.



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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.



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There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.





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