Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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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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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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