The heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHe who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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