He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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