Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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