We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDVirtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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