What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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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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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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