Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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 word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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