A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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