We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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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 accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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