Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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