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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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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
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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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Interest Often Self Useful Virtue Word
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Bore Few Virtuous Trade Women
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness

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