People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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