There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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