All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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 mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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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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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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