Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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