Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHeat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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