Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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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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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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