All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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