We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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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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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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