That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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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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