Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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