Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDHowever rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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