Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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 come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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