Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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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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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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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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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 of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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