Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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