Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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