There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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