One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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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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