When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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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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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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