Taste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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