A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPhilosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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