True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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