Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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