Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDInnocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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 mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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