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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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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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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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