When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThough nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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