We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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 love we often doubt what we most believe.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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