Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDGreat souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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 happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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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 is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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