All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWhy is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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