The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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