When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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