French author (1613-1680)
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Those who are incapable of great crimes don't readily suspect others of them.
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Moral Maxims
We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
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Moral Maxims
No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
When our hatred is too violent, it sinks us beneath those we hate.
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Moral Maxims
We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones.
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Moral Maxims
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
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Moral Maxims
'Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
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Moral Maxims
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
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Sentences et Maximes Morales
Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
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Moral Maxims and Reflections
If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.
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Moral Maxims
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
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Moral Maxims
We rarely find any persons of good sense except those who agree with us.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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attributed, Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Maxims
We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we disguise ourselves even to ourselves.
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Moral Maxims
We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.
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Moral Maxims
We can give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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Moral Maxims
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims