Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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