Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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