There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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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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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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 are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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