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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
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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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue

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