It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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