It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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