Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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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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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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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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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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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 is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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