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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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