How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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