In love we often doubt what we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOld people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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