Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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