No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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 so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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