To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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