We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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