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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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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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