We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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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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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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