Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.


François de La Rochefoucauld

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability.
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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One may outwit another, but not all the others.
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Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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The only thing constant in life is change
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
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When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.
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The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
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Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
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It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
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Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
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We forgive so long as we love.
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Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
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When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.
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The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
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Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
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It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them
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Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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It is far easier to know men than to know man.
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Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
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The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
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We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and ye...
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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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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La ...
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
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People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
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Few people know how to be old.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,...
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with...
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a grea...
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we ...
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in convers...
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what ...
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the geniu...
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Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
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Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them...
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in genera...
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