True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe heart is forever making the head its fool.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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