One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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