We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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