There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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