There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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 say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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