Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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