The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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What 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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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