Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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