The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDRidicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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