The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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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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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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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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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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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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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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