We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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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 are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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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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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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