We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTo achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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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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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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