However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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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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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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