Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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