We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThough men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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