Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThough 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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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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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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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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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