Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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