No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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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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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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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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