Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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