Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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