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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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People might be embarrassed by their supposedly good deeds if others knew the selfish or hidden reasons behind them. This suggests that our best actions are not always as pure or noble as they seem on the surface.

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