We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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