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Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
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We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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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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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
By Francois de La Rochefoucauld