We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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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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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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