True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne forgives to the degree that one loves.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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 in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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