Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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