Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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