In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDInnocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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