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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHow can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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