When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPeople’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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