Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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