There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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What 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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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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