The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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