People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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