However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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