The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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