We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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