Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her com

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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