What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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