On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDIf we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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