The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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