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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men, luck, that of the people.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

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?