We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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