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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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