The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPhilosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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