We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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