It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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