We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve 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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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