There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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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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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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