He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps 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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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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 deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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