One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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