There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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?
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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