The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Though 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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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 often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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