French author (1613-1680)
Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it.
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Those who apply themselves too much to little things commonly become incapable of great ones.
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We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
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We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
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Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
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The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.
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Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
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Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.
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It is far easier to know men than to know man.
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The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.
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A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
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Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.
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The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
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The head can't long act the part of the heart.
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The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
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We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in an employment that is too great for us.
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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.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs
There are crimes which become innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess: Hence it is, that public theft is called Address, and to seize on Provinces unjustly, to make Conquests.
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'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.
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