We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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