We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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