A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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