The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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 would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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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