To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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