There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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