One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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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.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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