There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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