We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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