One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDInnocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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 nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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