In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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