We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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