Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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