We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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