We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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