Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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