Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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