Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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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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