The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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 judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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