Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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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.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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