The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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