Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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