Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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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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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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