Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDTaste may change, but inclination never.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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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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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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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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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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