We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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