The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDInnocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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