We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDLove often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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