Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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