What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt 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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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