We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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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