The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHe who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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