When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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