Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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