One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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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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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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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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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