The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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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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