Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIt is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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