The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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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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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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