Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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