Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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