It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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