There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We 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 heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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