Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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