What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne 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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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