Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
wishes
vices virtues
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
virtues
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
faults
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
gifts admiration
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
misfortune
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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