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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise

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