No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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