Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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There 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 all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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