Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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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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