Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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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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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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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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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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