The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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