The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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