The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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