In love we often doubt what we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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