We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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 principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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