We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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 most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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