We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe 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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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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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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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