Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo 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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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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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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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