All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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