We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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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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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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