We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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