It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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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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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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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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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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