We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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