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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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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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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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