Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess 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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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