Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer 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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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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