Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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