“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”
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“ Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire. ”
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“ What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. ”
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“ When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. ”
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“ The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite. ”
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“ Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. - La Rochefoucauld. ”
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“ How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? ”
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“ We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore. ”
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“ It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. ”
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“ We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them. ”
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“ When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. ”
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“ Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner. ”
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“ Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. ”
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“ The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves. ”
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“ Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. - La Rochefoucauld. ”
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“ We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. ”
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“ No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking. ”
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“ There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ”
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