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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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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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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 a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Perhaps 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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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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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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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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