We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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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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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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