We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDJealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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