Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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