One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy 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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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