The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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