We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing 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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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 only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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