Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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