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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
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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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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