Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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