Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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