"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
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“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
“Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.”
“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”