Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDDecency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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