It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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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 so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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