Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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