We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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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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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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