Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess 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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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