There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDOne can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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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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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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