One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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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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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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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