Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIn the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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