Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhen we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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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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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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