One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOn neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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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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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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