Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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