When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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