Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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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