The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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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 would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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