Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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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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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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