A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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