People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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