The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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