There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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