Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur 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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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