Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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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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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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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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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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