We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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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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