True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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 seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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