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?

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to...

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to...

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions,...

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions,...

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of...

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of...

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation...

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation...

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having...

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having...

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think...

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think...

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of...

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of...

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love...

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love...

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to...

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to...

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there...

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.