Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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