If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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