Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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