There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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