There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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