Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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