On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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