Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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