We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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