All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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