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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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