If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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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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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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