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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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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