We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWeakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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