We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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