There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo 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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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