Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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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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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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