We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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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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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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