We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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 accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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