If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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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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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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