The heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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