The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPoliteness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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