Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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