We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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 are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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