Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
François de La Rochefoucauld
What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
François de La Rochefoucauld
One must listen if one wishes to be listened to.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.
John Wilmot
For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty’s against all common Sense.
John Wilmot
Dead we become the lumber of the world.
John Wilmot
Then Old Age, and Experience, hand in hand,
Lead him to death, and make him understand,
After a Search so painful, and so long,
That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
John Wilmot
There’s not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
John Wilmot
The Elephant is never won with Anger,
Nor must that man, who would reclaim a Lion,
Take him by the teeth.
John Wilmot