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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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