If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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