There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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