Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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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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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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