Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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