The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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 are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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