Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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