We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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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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