The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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