The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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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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