We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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 accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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