We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning 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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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