Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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