We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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