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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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