The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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