It 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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSilence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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