We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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