The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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