Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOld men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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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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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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