Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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