The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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