All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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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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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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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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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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