When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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