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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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