We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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