We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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