No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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