True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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