People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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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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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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