We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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