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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhat men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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