All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPhilosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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