The heart is forever making the head its fool.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOur concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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