Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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 promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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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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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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