There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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 only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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