It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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