We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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