Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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 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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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