Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWeakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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