However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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