The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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