We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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