As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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