We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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