We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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 surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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