When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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