We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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 pardon to the extent that we love.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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