We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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 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 give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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