How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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