However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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