We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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