True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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