The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat 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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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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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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