Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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