We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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