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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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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