Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy 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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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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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 defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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