Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.
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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.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are two sorts of constancy in loveone arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition for that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we think belongs, to us whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure, even in idea, the good of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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