We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSelf-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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