However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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