Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHow can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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