How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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