The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDSelf-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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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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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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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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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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