One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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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