Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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 sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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