Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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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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