We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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