The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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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 often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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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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