If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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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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