Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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