All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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