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 ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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