What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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