We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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