It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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