In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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