He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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