We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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 sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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