We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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