Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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