Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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