Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The mind is always the patsy of 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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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