If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNot all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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