When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSome accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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