We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDA refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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