Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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